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extreme, reckless charges that caused people to lose their jobs and destroyed their reputations
Extreme, reckless charges that caused people to lose their jobs and destroyed their reputations.
Extreme, reckless charges that caused people to lose their jobs and destroyed their reputations.
Extreme, reckless charges that caused people to lose their jobs and destroyed their reputations.
U. S. Senator Joseph McCarthy In the 1950s he was infamous for his "witch hunt" for communists.
Joseph McCarthy's career was furthered by the Cold War, as the Cold War brought about the red scare, and it gave a rapid rise to Mccarthyism in america, and Joseph McCarthy was very busy hunting communists for quite some time.
McCarthyism are attacks (made) by Senator Joseph McCarthy (and others).
Senator Joseph McCarthy of Wisconsin was known for being VERY anti-communist. Attacks (and I don't mean physical) on suspected communist were even refered to as McCarthyism.
Joseph McCarthy did not hunt witches, he sought out and persecuted anyone who had communistic values or tendencies, he would oversee hearings and blackballed so many people that this kind of persecution is known as "McCarthyism"
Joseph McCarthy accused Arthur Miller of being a communist, so the feelings that he harbored toward McCarthy were unpleasant, to say the least. His play "After the Fall" seems to be modeled on his feelings.
The US senator's name was Joseph McCarthy. The Red Scare is also known as McCarthyism.